Charlemagne in Italy

Now Published: The volume focuses on the development of narratives in Italy, from the earliest Franco-Italian tales up to the sixteenth century. It is now available to order form Boydell & Brewer
Ed. Jane E. Everson (Royal Holloway, University of London).
Contents
List of Illustrations –
List of contributors
General Preface: Charlemagne: A European Icon – Marianne Ailes and Philip E. Bennett
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on Terminology
Introduction – Jane E.Everson
The volume focuses on the development of narratives in Italy, from the earliest Franco-Italian tales up to the sixteenth century. It is now available from Boydell & Brewer – like all our volumes published in the Bristol Studies in Medieval Culture series.
Ed. Jane E. Everson (Royal Holloway, University of London).
Contents
List of Illustrations –
List of contributors
General Preface: Charlemagne: A European Icon – Marianne Ailes and Philip E. Bennett
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Note on Terminology
Introduction – Jane E.Everson
Chapter 1 The First Franco-Italian Vernacular Textual Witnesses of the Charlemagne Epic Tradition in the Italian Peninsula: Hybrid Forms – Leslie Zarker Morgan and Claudia Boscolo
Chapter 2 The Italian cantari on Charlemagne – Franca Strologo
Chapter 3 Carlo Magno, Ideal Progenitor of Country and Lineage: The image of Charlemagne in the prose compilations of Andrea da Barberino – Leslie Zarker Morgan
Chapter 4 Tradition and innovation in the fifteenth century: from anonymous poems to Luigi Pulci’s Morgante – Annalisa Perrotta
Chapter 5 Matteo Maria Boiardo: Innamoramento de Orlando – Maria Pavlova
Chapter 6 Crisis and continuity at the turn of the century – Jane E.Everson
Chapter 7 From Emperor to Pawn. Charlemagne in the Orlando furioso – Stefano Jossa
Chapter 8 An undying tradition: the afterlife of Charlemagne in Italy – Luca degl’Innocenti
Afterword: Charlemagne in Italy – a never-ending story – Jane E.Everson
Bibliography
Index